Why am I shocked?

[Alan Grimes <alangrimes@starpower.net>]

I must be insane.

I thought that /dev/fb0 was something that just worked... That simply 
gave an interface to the VESA 2 buffer or, if that fails, the standard 
VGA area. I was so smug in this assumption that I never bothered to 
question this and left the machine alone for months and months while I 
worked to port squeak ( www.squeak.org ) to it.

I felt uncomfortable letting such an amazingly powerful dual athlon go 
to waste so I went looking for a GUI for it....

After considerable effort I managed to get picogui compiled...

I try to do a test-run of the thing and quickly discover that my lowly 
old ATI Rage PRO Turbo based card was not supported at all! -- 
*incredible*. I had always known that leenooks was a piece of crap but 
this is astonishing!!!!

DOS games recognise the damn thing automaticly - No configuration of any 
kind required.

DOS programs have had the equivalent of framebuffer compatibility for 
twenty years now!! and _LEENOOKS_, An OS that is supposed to be superior 
in every way, simply does not support it!

I'll cut the kernel devels some slack because ATI is tight-lipped about 
the specs of its products but not supporting VESA 2 modes is flat-out 
_UNFORGIVABLE_.

What am I going to have to do, install windows XP pro on the thing??? =(



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